More lovely birds whilst in the Versailles gift shop At the tail end of my trip, a visit to the magnificent and often overlooked Musee de Sevres- just a short trip on ligne #9 to the end and then a quick walk over the bridge - et voila - a fantastic historic collection of china from everywhere and all time periods. At Sevres this plate commemorating American bird species -the crow? Birds as decorative elements stalked me. Here on a tapestry chair at...?Ah at musee Nissim de Camondo and it was a folding screen not a chair! These lovebirds were busy cooing at Versailles on another screen...

I went to Rick's place again and spotted this old alphabet bird postcard lying around...Just a bit of old embroidered tapestry at the Bastille brocante. Note a bird is present amidst the flowers and bunnies...

Tons of birds symmetrically arranged on the fabrics at theMusee de la Toile de Jouy. I guess birds add a touch of life to these static repetitive designs..qui sait? Here at Chateau Chantilly, a Roman mosaic of lowly pigeons!

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Oh, you know I love this one, Carol, with all these fabulous birds! That yellow cup and saucer is wonderful! And I do love all those elegant birdie tapestries...sigh. "Oddly, no birds and pastries!!" how funny--not really so odd, but I'm smiling to hear you say that! I'm sure we'll start seeing some through YOU!! ;))) Beautiful watercolor!

Wow this Tea pot painting has to be your best yet. I absolutly LOVE it. It is perfect. I think you can't top the last one I loved along comes this one. Love the whole post too as I love birds big time. I must reread this a few more times. :))The yellow and black bird could be an oriole...maybe.

Your posts are just beautiful. You have a great sense of connection/ connecting. And I agree with you with the Versailles cup (I didn't buy it either when there last year- I did pick up a couple of the Limoges M.A. pieces. I didn't even realize they were Limoges at the time of purchase. There was a great show in San Francisco in January '07 at the Legion of Honor displaying the inner contents of the Petit Trianon. Wonderful show!They were selling the MA Limoges' so I broke my bank & bought the cup & saucer & candle. The reason for writing though is that I just LOVED your bird post. And you showed those brilliant bird pieces from Musee Nissim de Camondo. No one will get the full scale of the room that they are in (one of my favorite places of all of Paris actually)- and from what I can remember each item of porcelain piece had a different bird on them- pretty fabulous!Thank you for making the world a brighter!!!!

I have been reading your PB for a few months now (forwarded to me by a friend) and I just must tell you how I enjoy it. Your watercolors are beautiful. You are a great artist! And your visit(s) to Paris and all the museums you know of make me want to go right now. Thank you for this little piece of France.

I have a very similar picture of the love birds at Versailles. The tapestry on that draught screen is fabulous...I can imagine the draught screen was also used as a "love screen" in those days ...Nice post !MN

I have a bit of an aversion to birds. They flutter too much. Around our cottage in the mornings they swoop down on you, I hate that and run inside screaming. Maybe we aren't so tough over here after all :(

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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